Collaborative Research: Critical Data Stories: Co-Designing Remixing Tools with Teachers to Support Critical Data Literacy with Middle School Youth

青年是数据相关主张的狂热创造者和消费者，他们通过参与社交媒体网站查看、制作和分享内容。他们重新组合内容，建立彼此的视频，GIF和模因来代表和讨论他们关心的话题。然而，在这些平台上的参与可能会导致回音室，错误信息和脱离现实世界经验的观点的扩散。因此，必须支持青年发展能力，通过参与全面考虑背景的调查，并同情所涉人员，来批评与数据有关的主张。该项目探讨了与中学数学和英语教师一起开发课程和工具，这些课程和工具将利用青年人的数字媒体混音实践来发展参与当今劳动力和知情公民所需的论证技能和关键数据素养。学生将探索社会政治问题，因为他们通过综合跨数据源和媒体的信息创建数据故事。该项目将开发课程资源和工具，以支持学生的调查，批评，交流和建立与数据和周围的知识的能力。该项目将通过暑期工作坊和全年设计合作，吸引美国4所学校的10名跨领域教师;该项目将开发工具和学习活动，包括脚手架和互动设计，以支持青年文化相关媒体实践的整合，数据调查的关键性，以及通过重新混合现有在线材料进行沟通。该项目将让中学数学和英语教师参与技术和课程单元的共同设计和实施，因为他们的学习者使用数据和媒体来调查和应对周围的社会政治系统。基于设计的研究方法将为技术和课程的多次迭代提供信息。研究人员将使用混合方法来分析文档，参与者访谈，课堂观察和实施工件，以回答三个研究问题：（1）什么混合启示可以支持学生的关键数据推理实践？，(2)我们如何在不同的课堂环境中支持关键数据讲故事工具的实施？以及（3）关键数据故事讲述工具的混合启示如何支持学生发展和应用关键数据素养实践？该项目将有助于理解技术如何将跨学科的学习目标通过论证和沟通联系起来，以支持关键的数据推理实践。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Youth are avid creators and consumers of data-related claims through their participation on social media sites, in which they view, produce, and share content. They remix content, building off one another’s videos, gifs, and memes to represent and discuss topics they care about. However, participation on these same platforms can result in echo chambers, misinformation, and proliferation of perspectives that are detached from real-world experience. Thus, it is essential to support youth in developing the ability to critique data-related claims through engaging in investigations that consider context holistically, and with empathy for the people involved. This project explores the development of curricula and tools with middle school Math and English teachers that will leverage youth’s practices with digital media remixing to develop argumentation skills and the critical data literacies necessary to participate in today’s workforce and as informed citizens. Students will explore sociopolitical issues as they create data stories by synthesizing information across data sources and media. The project will develop curricular resources and tools to support students’ abilities to investigate, critique, communicate and build knowledge with and around data. The project will engage 10 cross-domain teachers in 4 schools across the U.S. through summer workshops and year-round design collaborations; and up to 30 teachers and 1300 students across the United States through classroom implementations.The project will develop tools and learning activities, including scaffolding and interaction design, to support integration of youth’s culturally relevant media practices, criticality in data investigations, and communication through the remixing of preexisting online material. The project will engage middle school math and English teachers in the co-design and implementation of the technology and curricular units as their learners use data and media to investigate and respond to their surrounding sociopolitical systems. A design-based research approach will inform multiple iterations of the technology and curriculum. Researchers will use mixed methods to analyze documentation, participant interviews, classroom observations, and implementation artifacts, to answer three research questions: (1) What remixing affordances can support students’ critical data-reasoning practices?, (2) How can we support the implementation of critical data storytelling tools in diverse classroom contexts?, and (3) How do the remixing affordances of the critical data storytelling tools support students in developing and applying critical data-literacy practices? This project will contribute to an understanding of how technology can connect interdisciplinary learning goals across argumentation and communication to support critical data-reasoning practices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.